Paris is a special city full of paradoxes. It is both romantic and beautiful, dirty and scary, calm and bussy. I wanted to tell a story based on these paradoxes but at the same time show that reality could be so much more interesting if you just brought a little more imagination into it. To a certain amount you have the power to choose how you want to live your reality.
After a year of different animation techniques such as stop motion, classic cell animation, 2D animation and 3D modeling, came the final year at Animationsakademien. We all had the time to pick up on our favorite techniques or ways of expression and had now the possibility to develop this throughout the final year. Although we only had a couple of weeks of learning After Effects, which is a very complex program, I really liked how it came with so many possibilities. I, therefore, choose to make my final production in After Effects but with an experimental touch to it, to be able to learn many different parts of the program. You can see there are parts where I used rotoscoping for example. Most rigging was made with Duik but a few others using other plugins and 3D-layers. I really appreciate the space for creativity and possibility to explore After Effects that came with this format.
My short film is about people living by routine, day after day, week after week. They follow each other like zombies through the Paris metro station, on their way to work and then back home. Suddenly, one day, a night train comes into the station and takes the passengers to a totally different place. From day to night. Here, anything can happen. Hopefully, the passengers will bring a little piece of this back to their ordinary life.